PDF to text = poetry

Zegt Bruno Latour, copypasted uit de PDF:

First, we are no longer at a safe distance from any of the effects of
the “forces of nature”; second we are told by many scientific disciplines that
we have become so big, so cumbersome, that we
,
as humans
,
are now
of
a size
com
mensurable
with
volcanoes and
,
some say
,
with
plate tectonics; as to the
immense grandeur of our morality,
alas,
we seem so dejected, so puny
,
that
we have not the slightest idea of how to respond to the new situation.
The
task
of work
for the humanities i
s even more immense given that we have no
political idea of
what constitutes
the “we” endowed with the ability to
respond to
such a major transformation.
Time indeed to “measure
ourselves
.

Exit the feeling of the sublime. What’s next?
The successor of the
sublime is under
construction.

en,reading matter,research | June 22, 2018 | 11:38 | Comments Off on PDF to text = poetry |

PDF to txt = poetry

I remember once that Anna and I were in a panel together,
Anna was asked by someone in the audience:

‘What agent of history will replace the
worker fighting capitalism?’

Anna

‘s delightful answer was:

‘I think we have had
enough great agents of history, maybe we do not want another one.’

(uit een conversatie van Bruno Latour, Anna Tsing en Isabelle Stengers, gepubliceerd als PDF, 2018; regelindeling gegenereerd door tekst te copypasten uit de PDF).

en | June 22, 2018 | 11:31 | Comments Off on PDF to txt = poetry |

More ‘news’ on Frode Berg

Propaganda TV whips up spy hysteria along Russia’s border to Norway: https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/2017/12/propaganda-tv-whips-spy-hysteria-along-russias-border-norway.

en | December 22, 2017 | 9:46 | Comments Off on More ‘news’ on Frode Berg |

We have never known Mother Earth

Voor wie geen tijd heeft om Latour’s Oog in oog met Gaia / Facing Gaia / Face a Gaia helemaal te lezen: lees deze superheldere recensie van John Tresch: http://www.publicbooks.org/we-have-never-known-mother-earth/.

en,nl,reading matter,research | December 11, 2017 | 12:59 | Comments Off on We have never known Mother Earth |

Arctic heat

Remember last year? +0 degrees in December at the North Pole. +8 on Svalbard. 2016 was the warmest year on record. The Arctic heats up twice as fast as the rest of the Earth. More: https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic-ecology/2016/12/change-arctic-year-was-unlike-any-ever-seen-scientists-say.

en,leesvoer,research | December 18, 2016 | 2:20 | Comments Off on Arctic heat |

Sonic Acts Academy

O – en hier ben ik uiteraard de komende dagen: Sonic Acts Academy.

Schermafbeelding 2016-02-25 om 11.40.20

en,nl,research | February 25, 2016 | 12:40 | Comments Off on Sonic Acts Academy |

Bonneuil and Fressoz on the Anthropocene

Zelden nog dat ik een boek noem, hier. Deze beveel ik aan (‘bevel tot lezen’). Uitstekende inleiding, samenvatting, stellingname, visie, leesbaar, en gebaseerd op een grote hoeveelheid historisch materiaal. Al in 2013 uitgekomen in het Frans, nu vertaald in het Engels: Bonneuil & Fressoz’ The Shock of the Anthropocene. Uitgegeven door Verso Books.

shock-of-the-anthropocene-web-cover-25300cd45f1a34c7c90270482c9ec6e4

en,nl,reading matter,research | February 25, 2016 | 12:37 | Comments Off on Bonneuil and Fressoz on the Anthropocene |

22 years / 10 years

I still like the internet. And I’m still waiting for this Facebook and Twitter-thingie to go away.

en | January 27, 2016 | 0:29 | Comments Off on 22 years / 10 years |

Hypersphere

Lang op gewacht: het literaire meesterwerk geboren uit en in de internetcultuur. Dit is het. Denk ik. (… een bladzijde of 20 gelezen.)

Nu hoeven we dus niet langer te ‘zeuren’ dat de literaire cultuur op het Internet geen Ulysses heeft voortgebracht.

(Nee, ik heb het niet over Kenneth Goldsmith’ New York), euh ik bedoel Capital).

Ik heb het over Anonymous’ Hypersphere. Briljant? Guess so. Ha.

Scribd.

(Via Monoskop).

PS – een halve dag later en 50 pagina’s meer gelezen (kriskras door de pdf) vind ik het nog steeds steengoed, een schop onder de kont van de literatuur, en om te bulderen van het lachen (als bij Rabelais – I suppose).

en,leesvoer,pynchon,reading matter | January 15, 2016 | 0:01 | Comments Off on Hypersphere |

Photos of Dark Ecology II

As said, I spent almost a week in Kirkenes, Murmansk, Zapolyarny and Nikel, travelling on the second Dark Ecology journey with many, many great people. A first set of photos can be found here, more to come: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sonicacts/sets/72157661624427875

art,en,research | December 3, 2015 | 17:10 | Comments Off on Photos of Dark Ecology II |
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